AI Articles: “Your customer is about to stop shopping on your website this summer”; Canadian companies preparing for shoppers to rely more on AI & Camp tech
“Your customer is about to stop shopping on your website this summer”.
Courtesy of Aweber
May 26, 2026
Not because they don’t want your product. Because Google just changed where shopping happens”.
Universal cart – ensure your products are discoverable:
Uses Agentic Search for products in Google AND An Agent payment protocol
People will conversationally search for products, build shopping lists and check out items through chat (it will look for price drops)
Purchase with an Agent payment protocol: one time payment secure tokens
It will include other systems – e.g. Shopify. Make sure your ecommerce store for online shopping is compatible (if Shopify it will be okay – check for others)
Question – how could it be biased? They claim it isn’t….
Canadian companies preparing for shoppers to rely more on AI
Courtesy Barrie360.com
By Staff, May 29, 2026
Canadian brands are getting ready for a future where consumers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to shop, invest and manage everyday decisions.
“Six months from now, that human customer is going to have their own agents. Then the agent is going to be shopping on their behalf or investing on their behalf,” said BMO Financial Group chief artificial intelligence and quantum officer Kristin Milchanowski during the All In AI conference in Toronto on Thursday.
AI agents are autonomous software tools that can perform tasks for users. Their growing popularity is changing how companies think about customer service, marketing and online shopping.
Marketing to humans — and their AI assistants
Milchanowski said businesses are already starting to think beyond marketing directly to consumers.
“Think about six months from now, how do we market not just to the client – the human client – but how do we market to their agents?” she said.
“All of that world is coming to the theatre near you soon, and it’s quite exciting.”
Shopping habits already changing
As AI tools continue to evolve, Canadian Tire vice-president of AI activation and process engineering Anthony Wolf said consumers are already changing how they shop.
He said some shoppers are no longer starting their buying journey at a mall or even on a company’s website. Instead, many are turning to AI chatbots for recommendations and product searches.
Wolf said that shift is forcing brands to rethink how they stay visible and trusted in what he called an “AI-mediated” world.
“We’re trusted, and our customers know we’re trusted, but does ChatGPT know?” he said rhetorically.
“So there’s a whole other world of discussion about how we play within a much bigger ecosystem, which is again, exciting and scary at the same time.”
*with files from The Canadian Press
Camp Tech: Your Friday Tech Link Roundup
May 29, 2026
Here are a few things we’ve found online that we hope you’ll enjoy or find useful.
This is so clever. WIRED has a cover story about how corporate America is going all-in on AI, and to tell the story online, they made a fake online training portal. It’s really fun to click around in. Check out “AI or Die Trying” on WIRED’s website: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-or-die-trying/
Is AI use making us dumber? The answer comes down to how you’re using it, and whether you’re using AI as a cognitive surrender, or a cognitive offload. Camp Tech founder Avery Swartz explains the research in a video, which you can watch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/averyswartz_is-ai-use-making-us-dumber-the-answer-comes-ugcPost-7465474484083281921-iGnc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAItRJoBR6R8EQAw98a8NOLkJpIUKDgBWt4; OR INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/averyswartz/reel/DY2cyU-sMgU/
If you want your business to show up when your clients are searching for you using ChatGPT, you may want to post on LinkedIn more. A new report shows that LinkedIn content is highly cited by AI chatbots, especially posts from personal profiles. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/report-looks-at-how-linkedin-is-dominating-b2b-queries-in-ai-chatbots/820946/